Almost a year after Barbara Walters announced her plan to depart daily television, she has set
the date: May 16.

The View will toast the longtime broadcast journalist, 84, with a weeklong celebration
leading up to that day, her last as a co-host of the talk show she launched in 1997.

ABC will also offer a two-hour special that night about Walters and rename the ABC News
headquarters in New York in her honor this spring.

Walters will continue as a “lifelong member of ABC News, contributing as news warrants,” the
network said.

She started her ABC career in 1976 as the first anchorwoman of an evening-news program.

“It feels right for me,” Walters said yesterday on
The View. “I love this show. I love what we’ve done. It will continue without me. But I
also know that it’s time. I don’t want people to say, ‘Is she still here?’”